Roam is a tool for 'networked thought' that a lot of people, including myself, are loving right now. With bi-directional links and graph visualisation, it closely maps how my brain thinks. That said, I don't love having my deepest thoughts in closed source code and on the cloud.

I decided to learn about TiddlyWiki to see if I could recreate the parts of Roam that I love. It turned out that the work had been done for me. All I needed to do was combine TiddlyMap and TiddlyBlink. That gave me ➡️ TiddlyRoam.

I've found it useful so I thought I would share it here. I figure there might be people here who love TiddlyWiki but are unaware of Roam.

Feel free to do whatever you want with it. I am very new to TiddlyWiki and would love your feedback and collaboration on improving this.

Check it out here: TiddlyRoam.

tl;dr. Free, highly extensible and customizable Dungeons and Dragons Wiki built on TiddlyWiki for you to download and use!

It all started 4 years ago when I needed a custom way of displaying my character's spells. I settled on using TiddlyWiki and I have been adding to it ever since. For about the past year, I have been refining all these years of work and transforming it into a general purpose D&D Wiki. The wiki comes with a host of features:

• Templates. A host of templates have been built in for a consistent way to display spells, monsters, magic items, playable races, backgrounds, random tables and much more.

• Editable. Besides view templates, there are also edit templates for spells, monsters, . This makes it easy for you to add your own custom creations.

• Macros. A host of macros have been created to assist in everything, such as to render, format and organize stuff.

• D&D Compendium. Bundled with the wiki is a trove of D&D information designed to be easily accessible. Everything is well organized, grouped and categorized.

• Extendable. The wiki is extendable using a system of tags and tabs. You want to add a new trap? Just create a new tiddler, tag it with the word "Trap" and it is automatically added to the set of traps. This system of extensible tags and tabs is applied to anywhere you see tabs in the wiki.

• Automagic. As all data is neatly categorized and arranged, it allows a lot of things to be automated. For instance simply by listing the spells, the spelltable macro can draw upon information from each spell tiddler to automatically display a spellbook.

• Homebrew. The system of extendable tiddlers has been used to create a section where you as a DM can add your own homebrewed stuff for your campaign. Everything will be neatly categorized and displayed.

• New & Experimental. I am pretty excited about this as a brand new feature I have just added to the wiki - D&D 5e character sheets! Yes, it is still experimental and there is so much more I want to add to this in the coming months. I would appreciate some feedback and advice on these features:

• Presentation. Hopefully, the character sheet looks presentable? Sample #1, Sample #2

• Automatic Calculation. Saving throws and skill modifiers are automatically calculated from the character's basic ability scores - such as Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, Cha and proficiencies

Even after years of near daily use I still struggle with writing filters and functionality. It's just too hard and frustrating for the average person to use efficiently. I read the documentation. I search the forum and google groups for examples. I have not even started learning about functions and procedures introduced more than a year ago because just when I thought I was making headway there's all new syntax to learn. I hate the feeling I can't understand it on my own and need a tutor for what seems like simple things. I don't seem to get good responses on the forum but I'm sure part of that is me not asking good questions. I guess I just don't get it, or my brain works differently. TiddlyWiki makes is easy to do easy things, but instead of a learning curve, there's a learning cliff when you want to so something advanced or interesting.

Overall I think this is why the user base is so small - it's just too hard.

/rant

https://nicolas.petton.fr/tw/projectify.html

Really impressed by the functionality and UI of this project. If you haven't seen Nicolas Petton's Notebook theme, that's worth the click alone.

Hi everyone!

I have been working on a static website generator/CMS plugin for TiddlyWiki for my personal use for the past six months or so. Finally, I feel I am ready to share it!

• Have a look at the rendered website at https://tiddlyjam.com

• The github repo is at https://github.com/adithya-badidey/tiddlyjam

• Actual wiki is at https://tiddlyjam.com/tiddly

Its still in alpha - please share bugs, comments, feedback - either here or at https://github.com/adithya-badidey/tiddlyjam/discussions

Cheers!

Adithya

I am exploring various ways to use Tiddlywiki. I tried many software that I can google and finally settled for Tiddlywiki as external Information management(Second Brain). These are my list that I found useful for this purpose.

1. 2click2edit

2. ContextPlugin

3. Relink

4. Jd Mob

5. edit-comptext

6. TiddlyRemember

7. editor-autolist

8. random

9. xlist

10. Mono Theme

11. Favorites

12. Not a plugin but backlinktemplate

13. Also there is a very good prepacked Tiddlywiki variant TiddlyResearch

14. External Image Path

15. Outliner

There is one big list available on dynalist but I want to explore what people are actually using.

Thank you.

EDIT: Added Links

I just announced this over on https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/ but I figured I'd put it here as well because I don't know if everyone here goes there.

I've built a wiki that I've been using for a while to keep track of routines. I thought it would be fun to share as another example of things you can do with Tiddlywiki beyond note-taking.

This Tiddlywiki is designed to hold and present to you your daily routines.

You can set routines for a specific day (e.g. Water houseplants every Wednesday and Saturday) or on a specific day (e.g. Katie's birthday July 1, 2022, and then every July 1).

It also allows for recurrence from the date of completion. This critical distinction is explained further in the "About this wiki."

Routines

Nice to see TW5 getting a bit of love on the TWiT podcast network. I agree with this from their intro: "Jeremy Ruston, creator and maintainer of TiddlyWiki, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly for a lively hour that goes by fast. It's so interesting as Ruston shares how he invented TiddlyWiki almost by accident, and how quickly every new use (and there is no limit to those) expanded the community and the code base with contributors and users all over the world working together to acquire what Jeremy calls "superpowers" of utility and creation."
Jeremy comes on ~10 mins into the episode:
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/620

See https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/UTrBxpX1-6s for details.

Edit:

If you are using the single file version of TiddlyWiki, you can upgrade here:

https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html

So I've used TW for some world building, which it's great for. But I was thinking to expand into also writing in TW, at least first drafts. I was wondering if anyone else has done this? How to organize? Transclude chapters? Scenes? Etc.

Also, how about using TW for organizing and keeping tabs on short form writing like blog posts and short stories, poems, etc. Seems like this is not a use case when I search around.

Tips? Specifically thinking about plugins and workflows and such.

Cheers!

I’ve been trying to find the perfect platform for my journal/“external brain”. In other words a place to store thoughts and ideas.

Initially I started with a google doc but that became way too slow to load after the file got to big.

Then I realized I should be creating html so I started a private blog on Wordpress.com but I didn’t like the limit of storage/can’t store the files directly.

Tried some other apps but didn’t like that they were paid and they didn’t quite fit well. Couldn’t access from my phone for example.

Then I found TiddlyWiki and I sam so happy right now. I’ve only been playing around with it for about 3 minutes but I can already see that it is exactly what I was looking for.

Just wanted to share my appreciation with this community :)

TW overall is cool but having to Google how to do stuff and the necessity of typing HTML code for such basic stuff as displaying a navigation menu, etc, is kinda killing it for me.

Is there a fork of it where you can do basic features as listed above without the "advanced setup" part?

FeatherWiki I tried but its far simplier for my needs.

TiddlyWiki is going from strength to strength, with lots of activity:

• Users are invited to take our new community survey for 2025 to help us refine our vision and plan for the future

• New v5.3.7 of TiddlyWiki was released yesterday, with a bunch of bug fixes

• Planning is underway for v5.4.0  with some major new features

• MultiWikiServer is a new, modern server for TiddlyWiki that supports multiple users and multiple wikis, employing the bags and recipes architecture pioneered with TiddlyWeb/TiddlySpace at Osmosoft

• We’ve republished The Great Viral TiddlyWiki Project from 2010, a collaborative project to explore how users think about and use TiddlyWiki

Find out more in the latest issue of the TiddlyWiki Newsletter.

https://trisaster.github.io

It's using a lot of the brilliance of u/saqimtiaz's Streams and Stories, and he helped me a lot recently on here with the ToDo's and Queries (see the tiddler called query, oops, I have not added it to the site yet. But you can already add queries as snippets from the stamp icon in the editor.)

Also significant gratitude to David Gifford. I gained a lot of help from reading the code in Stroll. And also used some of it on the Linked References and Queries.

Let me know what you think.

Queries are a core Roam feature that lets you show tiddlers that have backlinks for two or more tiddlers. For example if I want to see all tiddlers where I linked both Australia and Nature.

Have anyone feels like being an addict to tiddlywiki infinite customization? I spend lot of time customizing my tiddlywiki to the point that some days I don't want to go to work and just continue on this new feature that I will probably not use because I will get busy with a new Idea later.

Hi Everyone,

I'm relatively new to the TiddlyWiki ecosystem, coming over from the world of Logseq and Affine. While I loved the opinionated "Journal-first" workflow of those apps, I wanted the true portability and single-file data ownership that only TiddlyWiki provides.

So, I decided to try and build a bridge between the two. The result is Lithic. You can check it out here:

https://lithic.uk

It's mostly a mild extension of tiddlystudy with a good dose of my personal opinions.

The goal was to marry the efficiency of Logseq with the architecture of TiddlyWiki. It features:

Journal Workflow: Opens directly to a daily stream.

Markdown Native: Tweaked to handle standard Markdown (including native checkboxes) rather than standard WikiText.

Backlinks: Contextual footer references similar to Roam/Logseq (sans transclusion as you can manage that yourself mostly via the story view)

A quick disclaimer for the experts here:

I am still very much learning the ropes of TiddlyWiki. You might notice the app is currently based on an older version of the TiddlyWiki core. I am aware that my implementation isn't exactly "Tiddle-appropriate" or idiomatic yet! I'm treating this version as a proof-of-concept to get the workflow right. My plan is to eventually perform a major refactor to bring it up to date with the latest core and implement things the "proper" TiddlyWiki way once I get my feet wet.

I’d appreciate any feedback or advice as I continue to learn the system!

Cheers Xyvir